Chapter 5 The Secret Deal

Half an hour has passed since Yumi entered the conference room and high ranking marine officers began flooding in the room.

The lowest high ranking officer that entered the room is rear admiral while the highest is the fleet admiral who entered last.

Everyone took their seat while Sengoku, the fleet admiral, took the seat in the middle so that everyone could clearly see him.

The marines sat together while the warlords sat near each other.

The room was noisy as the warlords were a bit unscrupulous, talking about the things that are happening and ignoring the marines in front of them.

The warlord of the sea has very high authority in the marines, they could do whatever they want as long as they don't directly disobey the world government.

The marines aren't allowed to capture or attack them without any reasonable reason, that goes for even the admiral and fleet admiral.

At this moment, one admiral in the room looked at the warlords with unpleasant eyes, the admiral is a tall man wearing a red suit, black gloves, a justice cloak behind his back, and a white marine cap.

He is Akainu, nickname Red Dog, a person who ate the magu-magu no mi which is known as the devil fruit with the most offensive capability among the three admirals (Yumi doesn't count).

He doesn't like pirates at all, that's why the warlords look unpleasant to him, he shouted, "You Pirates need to quiet down, the meeting is about to start."

The whole room became quiet as the warlords stopped talking. Akainu is very obsessed with his own interpretation of justice, Absolute justice. Any and all pirates need to be wiped out by any means necessary, even cruel ones.

If they offend this guy then they won't be having a good time…

After Akainu sat back on his chair, Sengoku glanced at Akainu and spoke out, "This meeting is about discussing the plans on the upcoming battle with whitebeard. Any suggestions?"

Just at this moment, Yumi's eyelid twitched before waking up, she yawned and rubbed her eyes, her action caught the eyes of everyone as a sleeping child in a serious meeting room is quite conspicuous.

"Huh, the meeting already started?", she muttered.

Sengoku ignored the inner feeling of scolding this admiral because that would ruin his majestic image as a fleet admiral. He said, "Yumi, do you have any ideas on the upcoming battle with whitebeard?"

Hearing the sudden question, Yumi subconsciously answered, "I'll take care of it."

The room fell in an awkward silence, take care of whitebeard by yourself? Is this a serious answer or not?

Feeling that there was a weird atmosphere in the room, Yumi's consciousness was fully awake as she looked at everyone.

"What's wrong?"

Sengoku sighed at the not-so-serious answer he received while the rear admirals to vice admirals look at her like she is an idiot.

Whitebeard isn't so easy to take care of you know? he is very strong.

The warlords understood what the faces of the rear and vice admirals are saying and silently agreed with them.

Whitebeard is a very big name in the world, even the people in the four seas know the name of whitebeard and use the name of whitebeard to scare children.

The legend of whitebeard is deeply rooted in people's heart.

Although Yumi is the strongest admiral among the four admirals, she can't possibly beat whitebeard alone, right?

As if understanding what everyone in the room mean, Yumi had a lazy look as she said, "I have a simple plan in my mind.

10,000 marine elites will be equipped with the best rifles we have, this would at least take out most of the cannon-fodder pirates.

The rear and vice admirals will defeat or hold out the pirates who have high combat effectiveness. The warlords and the admirals will go take out the cadres of the whitebeard pirates.

The fleet admiral and the marine hero would protect the execution platform to prevent any pirates from freeing ace.

As for me, I have the highest combat effectiveness in marine headquarters. I should be able to take down whitebeard."

(A/N Let's just pretend the plan I thought of is very amazing ok?)

After she finished speaking, everyone in the room thought for a moment on the feasibility of this plan. Most people rejected it almost immediately, the warlords might backstab any minutes, trusting their lives on pirates?

The critical part of this plan are the warlords, and their credibility is very doubtful. In addition, the cadre of the whitebeard pirates aren't weak either, even the admirals will take a while to defeat them much less the vice admirals and warlords.

"Don't worry, I have a trump card that will guarantee our victory in this war. Trust me!"

Sengoku squinted his eyes, not knowing whether to trust her or not. I mean it seems unreliable when a loli says this and even though you know she is strong in your mind, her harmless look make you doubt the strength she has in your mind.

Everyone has the same feeling as sengoku as they looked at her.

Seeing everyone's eyes, Yumi sighed and finally said, "Well, you could ignore my plan, anyway the little paycheck of an admiral doesn't cover me making a thorough plan."

Kizaru widened his eyes and secretly clapped his hands at her words, that's right! The little paycheck of an admiral isn't enough to cover things other than catching pirates!

Sengoku decided to trust Yumi and follow her plan, if it doesn't work then they would have a backup plan, the marines have him and garp, so things won't go horribly wrong.

Just as he was about to declare the meeting to an end, he suddenly thought of something before saying, "By the way, there seems to be a warlord missing in this room."

"Uh…Gecko Moria suddenly fell ill and went to the hospital, sengoku…" Yumi said this with a hint of guilty conscience, her lying skill isn't really good but sengoku didn't care about this.

"I already know that but where is Blackbeard? He should be here in this meeting room."

Kuzan then spoke up, "Fleet admiral sengoku, we lost contact with Blackbeard a while ago."

Sengoku sighed at this before ending the meeting. Everyone went back to their preparatory work as the upcoming war is only 5 days away.

The meeting has been going on for a few hours and when it has ended, the time is already lunch hour. The four admirals gather together for lunch which was proposed by Yumi.

As she has the highest combat effectiveness among the four, Kizaru, Akainu, and Kuzan decided to follow her arrangements.

Yumi lead the group to the marine canteen.

The marine canteen is one of the biggest room in marine headquarters as there are thousands to tens of thousands of marines who enter the canteen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

There are thousands of chefs in the kitchen that prepare hundreds of tons of food every day.

Just the expenses in the canteen is as high as a billion beli every year, an astronomical money for many kingdoms in this world.

The food ranges from the cheap ones which can only fill a belly to expensive foods that contain a lot of nutrition which is good for improving strength and replenishing stamina.

When the group entered the canteen, the marines already there looked at them in surprise and admiration.

The admirals are the strongest combat force in the marines, many people idolize and worship them as they are the symbol of justice.

It is also very rare for the admirals to enter the canteen as they would regularly tell the staff to send the food to their office.

Right now, they seem to be eating in the same room as them, the marines were excited and almost everyone was ready to stand up and ask for an autograph.

But the military discipline ingrained in their bones stopped them from doing that. First it is disrespectful and second they might give the admirals a bad impression.

Yumi and the three admirals walked to the counter, got a tray and began taking the food they want. After that they went and found a relatively spacious table to sit at.

"Hey~ Yumi, what do you call us for? I am very busy you know? there are piles of paperwork I needed to finish."

Kizaru was the first to speak up. He is a middle-aged man wearing orange sunglasses, yellow and white striped uniform, and a justice cloak.

He spoke in a slow and relaxed tone which is in line with him always relaxing even during missions and only rarely does things seriously.

"Hmph! If you call lazing in your office work then I would take a vacation!", snorted Akainu.

Akainu is a very serious person, having not taken a day off since he became an admiral, he catches pirates all year long to maintain his absolute justice.

"Wow~ Wow~ there, Akainu. You can't insult laziness like this, your offending the three of us!"

Another person said, this man is Kuzan, a person seems to always have a green sleeping mask on his forehead, he usually relaxes by riding his bicycle through the grand line.

Akainu looked at the three, Kizaru, Kuzan, and Yumi, and sneered, "So what? What can you do to me? I dare you to bite me!"

"Okay, Okay, you can stop arguing now. I gathered you here for a purpose!", Yumi interrupted.

The three admirals gave her a look that seemed to say, "I already know that". Yumi was a bit embarrassed at being seen through so easily.

She coughed and said, "I gathered you three here to make a deal."

The three admirals had a serious look. Yumi is the strongest admiral among the four of them, that is a known fact.

Another known fact is that she is known as the "wealth god". Most of the people under her had mastered some of the six powers and Haki.

Mastering some of the six powers is not a big deal but Haki is another matter altogether.

Haki is the mysterious power of using your will power, enhancing your attack power and bypassing the intangibility of the logia-type devil fruit user, and dodging attack for higher survivability.

All in all, Haki is a very versatile power system that is essential for surviving in the new world (the second half of the grand line).

It takes a lot of time and resources to make a person master Haki to the intermediate level, only intermediate level Haki is useful in the new world.

Yumi is called a "wealth god" because of this.

The resources to produce 1,000 intermediate Haki masters is unimaginable for the three admirals.

They only receive limited resources from the marines as most of the resources are split between the four while the rest are used for maintaining the daily operations of the marine organization that spans the four seas, paradise(first half of the grand line), and the new world.

They are somewhat dissatisfied with the limited resources and the only way to get more is to catch more pirates, this is also one of the main motivators for Akainu.

The three admirals each have an army of 10,000 soldiers as for their quality, it all depends on the resources they receive.

Now that they know that the "wealth god" herself will give them an offer, they would like to hear it.

Seeing them eager for her offer, she had a slight smile on her face, "I'll give you three 6 billion beli and all you need to do is focus on the pirate Monkey D. Luffy during the upcoming war.

The split is like this, 3 billion beli on the person that turns the pirate in while 1.5 billion beli for the remaining two.

How about it? accept? Of course if only two of you accept then you would each get 3 billion beli and if only one of you three accept, you would get the 6 billion beli."

Hearing the amount given by Yumi, the three admiral's eyes almost turned into money signs. Even 500 million beli would make them greedy much less 1.5 billion.

500 million beli would be enough to create 5 intermediate level Haki masters given enough time, it would definitely boost their armies by up a notch.

Just for catching a little pirate in the upcoming war would get them so much money? That's a lucrative offer!

Kizaru was the first one to speak out and his tone changed to a slightly serious one, "Kuzan, Akainu, you two have been working very hard over the years and I think you should let me take this task alone.

I promise to catch Monkey D. Luffy and not let him get away again!"

"Kizaru, you have already let go of the pirate once, no more chance! I should be the one to catch him and there would be no mistakes!", declared Akainu.

Kuzan then argued, "No, it should be me! I have met the straw hat pirates and I'll catch them all back, you old men just sit back and relax, I'll take care of it all."

Looking at them arguing on who to take the task alone, Yumi sighed and said, "You three will take the task together, after you catch the pirate, I'll immediately send the money to your office."

The three admirals nodded, and a sharp light flashed through their eyes.

The money is going to be mine!

Kizaru decided to catch the pirate first and not make any mistakes, he'll get the 3 billion beli and have a happy day. Who else can catch the pirate the fastest except for him?

The other two also thought the same with different variation.

The secret transaction was done and Yumi left happily.

For some reason, she has a feeling that garp won't be too happy with this little deal… nah, she's getting paranoid.

(A/N This is the last chapter for the week. Maybe.)